The now dark, dank and unlit rooms of this once marvelous facility are occupied by dozens of poor, squatter, families who try to make a living from growing crops on the surrounding land and charging the occasional tourist a small fee to allow access....
Main entrance (Gate 1) one street down: 1⃣️Huaibei Milk Factory🥛: At the school gate, there are cold fresh milk and yogurt (2 days of freshness), available in half-pound and one-pound bottles. The half-pound bottle we bought only cost 💰4 yuan. 2⃣️Le Ma Handmade Big...
“With our two beautiful waterfront locations in Mission Bay, we offer unique experiences tailored to different kinds of camping preferences,” said Jacob Gelfand, Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Terra Vista Management. “Campland provides vibrant and family-friendly entertainment, while M...
The environment is pristine and strict rules placed on tour operators ensure it remains that way – including washing your boots every time you leave the boat for a land excursion. You cannot leave anything on the continent nor can you remove anything – not even a small pebble from a beach...
Smallmouth bass are found in all those lakes, but Lake Erie is the prized resource for abundant large smallmouth bass. The deepwater dropoffs near Brocton Shoal, Van Buren Point, and Point Gratiot are local hangouts for schools of smallmouth bass that can tilt the scales with 5-pound+ fis...
I had the chance to visit some of the country’s most revered landmark temples and shrines. One common thread stood out: intricate ties to the nature. Too frequently, it was hard to tell which was to be admired more: the elegant Ise Shrine or the surrounding 1,000-year old trees? Its...
asked to wash and sanitize our hands at the hand washing stations, and given the green light to follow the pathways out to the berry fields. Lucky for us, the Blue Crops, which are big plump berries, were available for picking and in short time we filled two 10 pound buckets with the...
A fertile and productive land if the rains fall, the wadi was never an easy place to live. Too much rain, and whole villages could be washed away, as happened in the great floods of 2008; no rain, and famine struck. Death by starvation or a trek to the coast – ten days by camel...
It had taken fourteen days but at last I got my Indian washing line picture. Next up was a visit to a traditional Indian theatre which lasted about two hours and was about one and a half hours longer than necessary. We sat through the make up process and the explanations about the story...
and take a right, still moving fast, still carrying our “casualty”, a roughly 230-pound lad who is finding out that riding in a field-expedient improvised litter isn’t much more comfortable than humping a 40-pound ruck. Everyone is out of water. There are no aid stations in GORUCK....